_estimate_time_received should use time_server

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Next Generation High Altitude Balloon Tracking

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_estimate_time_received should use time_server #314

Open danielrichman opened 11 years ago

danielrichman commented 11 years ago

Some points are out of order. My current favourite is the unnamed listener whose clock is set to exactly the right time and day… in May rather than April.

currently:

uses time_created provided by the listener, excludes points outside std dev, takes mean

ideas:

correct time_created by using (time_server - time_uploaded)
if time_server provided, trust it and ignore others
weight listeners with time_server provided in the previous algo (4x ?)

danielrichman commented 11 years ago

Draft: https://github.com/danielrichman/habitat/commit/b628bbb3588ffe96fa2cbe66c0e18752f438b78c

TODO: do something with this